Re: A celebrity among us :-)

Lamar Owen wrote:
>
> Well, at the risk of embarrassing our esteemed Bug Fixer Extraordinaire, after
> verifying that it is, indeed, the same man, Kudos to the 7th most prolific
> open-source author in the world THOMAS G LANE!!!
>
> http://orbiten.org/ofss/01.html for reference.
>

Now I know who to contact for all my Discrete Cosine Transform
questions.

> Good for grins, if nothing else. I think they are counting by actual bytes of
> source code contributed (however they measure that -- probably, in most cases,
> by copyright notices.). In any case, hoorays for Tom Lane (and for the rest of
> the Free Software community). It is unfortunate, however, that the PostgreSQL
> project isn't counted amongst his contributees.

Just glancing through the CVS logs leads me to believe that, with
PostgreSQL, maybe it should go:

1. FSF
2. Sun Microsystems
3. Tom Lane
4. UCLA

Just my humble opinion, of course :-)

Mike Mascari